The Official Status Thread
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
when ipv6 overtake ipv4
this reminds me ... our customer facing jira uses Azure/O365 authentication, someone set up a region block on that limiting only logons from . To no one's surprise this doesn't work for people who are assigned an IPv6 address only by their provider.
So far I've been able to convince our security drone that geolocation is at best a guideline, and generally still shit even at that. We'll see how long my luck lasts.
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
when ipv6 overtake ipv4
this reminds me ... our customer facing jira uses Azure/O365 authentication, someone set up a region block on that limiting only logons from . To no one's surprise this doesn't work for people who are assigned an IPv6 address only by their provider.
So far I've been able to convince our security drone that geolocation is at best a guideline, and generally still shit even at that. We'll see how long my luck lasts.
Since I've seen geolocation results that would have required me to move at a significant multiple of the speed of sound to be true, I really don't put my faith in them for much important at all. Let alone as a security measure.
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Status: Why is merely logging into the service for changing my work password the hardest thing I have to do at the moment? Introducing type checking to a large and very Pythonic codebase () is as nothing by comparison...
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Status: MFW I'm confused that an area of the taskbar seems oddly dim until I realize a window behind a maximized window is casting a fucking gargantuan shadow.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
when ipv6 overtake ipv4
this reminds me ... our customer facing jira uses Azure/O365 authentication, someone set up a region block on that limiting only logons from . To no one's surprise this doesn't work for people who are assigned an IPv6 address only by their provider.
So far I've been able to convince our security drone that geolocation is at best a guideline, and generally still shit even at that. We'll see how long my luck lasts.
Since I've seen geolocation results that would have required me to move at a significant multiple of the speed of sound to be true, I really don't put my faith in them for much important at all. Let alone as a security measure.
Microsoft will teach you a lesson!
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Status: Tracking the UPS truck with my package on a live map. I wonder how the Delivery Distortion Field could mess this up.
ii. The driver's location is approximate and apparent proximity to your address does not necessarily mean that your package will be delivered within any particular amount of time. For the latest information regarding your package, please visit UPS tracking.
Oh.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder how the Delivery Distortion Field could mess this up.
The UPS truck could disappear from the surface of the earth
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder how the Delivery Distortion Field could mess this up.
I often watch the tracking show them passing by on my street multiple times, presumably because the load is in a different order.
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I love it when I'm using the track-your-driver app for our local equivalent to DoorDash (in this case, Deliveroo) and the map shows the driver clearly in the sea.
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Yeah, "automatically" every time I click .
Also, it's moving further away from my house.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
I love it when I'm using the track-your-driver app for our local equivalent to DoorDash (in this case, Deliveroo) and the map shows the driver clearly in the sea.
How did this happen Dinesh?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Tracking the UPS truck with my package on a live map.
Awww. You think your package was actually in that truck. How cute.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Tracking the UPS truck with my package on a live map.
Awww. You think your package was actually in that truck. How cute.
Shhhh, we don't spoil Santa Claus here.
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Status: Delivery status has changed from "Almost There" to "In Your Area". You will note that this is not forward progression:
The estimated delivery time has changed from between 13:45 and 15:45 to by 19:00. Previous experience suggests that they will make that (revised) estimate with not more than 2 minutes to spare.
It is now 17:00. Even with tendonitis in my ankles, I could limp to the currently reported location of the truck, and back, with an hour and a half to spare.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder how the Delivery Distortion Field could mess this up.
I often watch the tracking show them passing by on my street multiple times, presumably because the load is in a different order.
You would think UPS, FedEx, Amazon, and the like would put significant effort into optimizing their process, because the fuel and time driving around costs them money. It's the traveling salesman problem, which is NP-hard, but it's very well understood and some really good heuristics exist.
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Status: The truck alleged to be carrying my package was within about a block of my house, but it turned the other direction.
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@HardwareGeek The truck (or a truck) just drove past my house ... without stopping.
Oh, and Firefox on my PC has gone into zombie land, so I can't track it anymore. Well, I can if I pull up the site on my phone, which I haven't done because I'm posting here.
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@HardwareGeek It is here.
Probably a different truck, because both were traveling in the same direction, and it would make no sense for the truck to have gone around the block.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
it would make no sense for the truck to have gone around the block
Yes it does, to their internal delivery priority algorithm. If your package has "basic bitch" level shipping, they can pass your house 87 times delivering "sparkly diamond" packages first and yours'll get left for last.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
I love it when I'm using the track-your-driver app for our local equivalent to DoorDash (in this case, Deliveroo) and the map shows the driver clearly in the sea.
I've first heard of Deliveroo through Masterchef Australia. I always sort of assumed it would be an Australian company. When I found out it was founded in the UK it blew my mind.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
I love it when I'm using the track-your-driver app for our local equivalent to DoorDash (in this case, Deliveroo) and the map shows the driver clearly in the sea.
they are using boats
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
A few years ago would you believe that duke nukem forever would be released before ipv6 take off?
It's been over a decade.
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Status: Google Password Manager wants to be an App I can just launch.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Slowly eradicating my "148 compromised passwordz!"
For many it seems an infathomable idea that "shit that doesn't need a password at all but requires one gets a trivial one."
All of my passwords are trivial once you know the seed and hash function. Not that they'll be able to tell...
Satasus: Cannot have more than 12 characters?
Why?
That totally fucks with my heuristic password scheme!
Whelp, off to the shame category...
Edit: This is also a site where the initial sign-up apparently has different rules to the password reset.
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Status: Hate RegEx so much.
So I wrote a function that converts Windows wildcard searches to RegEx.
myfunction (search, pattern) { return RegEx.IsMatch(search, "^" + pattern.Replace("*",".*").Replace("?",".{1,1}") + "$"); }
Yet, somehow,
"C:\\"
did not match"?:\\"
as a pattern. When I tested online, it worked fine. But I have to double escape my pattern as"?:\\\\"
for it to work locally. Is the website secretly double escaping it on submit?This bullshit is also why .htaccess filters are such a pain in the ass to debug...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Is the website secretly double escaping it on submit?
No, but your compiler is likely interpreting the string and
\
is of course a special escape character which necessarily needs to be escaped again.It gets pretty ridiculous. I once had eight apostrophes in a row in an Excel formula. Yes I was doing something pretty , but the concept remains.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Yet, somehow,
"C:\\"
did not match"?:\\"
as a pattern. When I tested online, it worked fine. But I have to double escape my pattern as"?:\\\\"
for it to work locally. Is the website secretly double escaping it on submit?This bullshit is also why .htaccess filters are such a pain in the ass to debug...
You are also missing converting
.
into[.]
(as.
means "match anything" and crops up in filenames frequently). Yes, that is longer than it could be, but it is bullshit-free, unlike\.
.REs are their own language. They have their own rules. The ones around backslashes are annoying in many languages because those languages have their own rules around backslashes in string literals and they interact. Some languages have workarounds for this, but you appear to be going for backslashitis...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
The driver's location is approximate and apparent proximity to your address does not necessarily mean that your package will be delivered within any particular amount of time.
Honestly, that is something real in areas with a not too simple topography (rivers, mountains), or just "modern" quarters with lots of oneway and dead end roads (perhaps some roads are ).
Does not help much when the vehicle is 50 meters from your home, but to get there, it has to take several km on other roads.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
put significant effort into optimizing their process
It is optimized, of course.
Had you just subscribed to prime, the vehicle would take the fastest route directly to you, and only afterwards travel to the losers on that way who did not subscribe.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
This is also a site where the initial sign-up apparently has different rules to the password reset.
That still looks harmless.
A friend of mine discovered a worse fuckup: at account creation, he could enter his 2563 characters (well, I exaggerated a little, but it was a really long password), and when he wanted to change his password, that page did not allow him to enter his full old password (the field had a maxlength=15 property), hence he was not able to change the password except for the "forgot password" menu...
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Hate RegEx so much.
So I wrote a function that converts Windows wildcard searches to RegEx.
myfunction (search, pattern) { return RegEx.IsMatch(search, "^" + pattern.Replace("*",".*").Replace("?",".{1,1}") + "$"); }
Yet, somehow,
"C:\\"
did not match"?:\\"
as a pattern. When I tested online, it worked fine. But I have to double escape my pattern as"?:\\\\"
for it to work locally. Is the website secretly double escaping it on submit?This bullshit is also why .htaccess filters are such a pain in the ass to debug...
Summary: You're machine-translating German into French. A random Italian understands you, but the target Spaniard does not.
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status i’m playing with linode. Something has gone very wrong here.
Also I’ve been called a useful nuisance. I’m not sure how to interpret that.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder how the Delivery Distortion Field could mess this up.
I often watch the tracking show them passing by on my street multiple times, presumably because the load is in a different order.
You would think UPS, FedEx, Amazon, and the like would put significant effort into optimizing their process, because the fuel and time driving around costs them money. It's the traveling salesman problem, which is NP-hard, but it's very well understood and some really good heuristics exist.
To be honest the costs in processing vs money saved in fuel alone would be worth it.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
it would make no sense for the truck to have gone around the block
Yes it does, to their internal delivery priority algorithm. If your package has "basic bitch" level shipping, they can pass your house 87 times delivering "sparkly diamond" packages first and yours'll get left for last.
Or that.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
This is also a site where the initial sign-up apparently has different rules to the password reset.
That still looks harmless.
A friend of mine discovered a worse fuckup: at account creation, he could enter his 2563 characters (well, I exaggerated a little, but it was a really long password), and when he wanted to change his password, that page did not allow him to enter his full old password (the field had a maxlength=15 property), hence he was not able to change the password except for the "forgot password" menu...One of the sites I work has different password logic on create account, update password, forgot password and site admin change. One of them forbids question marks for reasons that noone has been able to explain.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
One of them forbids question marks for reasons that noone has been able to explain.
eval
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I dreamed I got formally reprimanded at work specifically for being a member of the I Hate Oracle Club while accessing the site from the office.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
You are also missing converting . into [.] (as . means "match anything" and crops up in filenames frequently). Yes, that is longer than it could be, but it is bullshit-free, unlike ..
I just posted the short version. I also escape
.(){}[]
characters. Can't go much further without escaping characters that were already escaped so they break in the RegEx. It's just dumb a website that's supposed to test the same RegEx engine I'm using locally has different escape rules.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I was doing something pretty
You Doing something
</sarcasm>
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
Had you just subscribed to prime
The purchase did not involve Amazon.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
One of them forbids question marks for reasons that noone has been able to explain.
Do not question the logic.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
status i’m playing with linode. Something has gone very wrong here.
Aborted linode. The managed nextcloud service is cheaper and faster. I don’t have server management in my heart. Thats for braver and more foolhearty souls.
Maybe locally...
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder how the Delivery Distortion Field could mess this up.
I often watch the tracking show them passing by on my street multiple times, presumably because the load is in a different order.
You would think UPS, FedEx, Amazon, and the like would put significant effort into optimizing their process, because the fuel and time driving around costs them money. It's the traveling salesman problem, which is NP-hard, but it's very well understood and some really good heuristics exist.
To be honest the costs in processing vs money saved in fuel alone would be worth it.
I think I read somewhere that UPS at least put effort into planning routes so that they’d try to favour turning right rather than left to save fuel. They were making claims of saving 10 million (US) gallons of fuel and reducing CO2 output by 20,000 tonnes per year.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
One of them forbids question marks for reasons that noone has been able to explain.
Do not question the logic.
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I wonder how the Delivery Distortion Field could mess this up.
I often watch the tracking show them passing by on my street multiple times, presumably because the load is in a different order.
You would think UPS, FedEx, Amazon, and the like would put significant effort into optimizing their process, because the fuel and time driving around costs them money. It's the traveling salesman problem, which is NP-hard, but it's very well understood and some really good heuristics exist.
To be honest the costs in processing vs money saved in fuel alone would be worth it.
I think I read somewhere that UPS at least put effort into planning routes so that they’d try to favour turning right rather than left to save fuel. They were making claims of saving 10 million (US) gallons of fuel and reducing CO2 output by 20,000 tonnes per year.
Ah, so that's how it ended up in the sea
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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
favour turning right rather than left to save fuel.
That makes some sense for US driving, where left turns usually have to cross oncoming traffic and right turns are usually permitted on red lights (if traffic flow allows, of course). Wait time to make a turn will, on average, be less for a right turn than for a left, so less fuel spent idling while waiting to make a turn.
It's bad optimization, though, if the delivery route loops because the fundamental routing algorithm is inefficient.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
This is also a site where the initial sign-up apparently has different rules to the password reset.
That still looks harmless.
A friend of mine discovered a worse fuckup: at account creation, he could enter his 2563 characters (well, I exaggerated a little, but it was a really long password), and when he wanted to change his password, that page did not allow him to enter his full old password (the field had a maxlength=15 property), hence he was not able to change the password except for the "forgot password" menu...This is what happened.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
different escape rules
Except it doesn't.
And yet, I have to double escape every pattern from the website for it to work in VS.